March’s Teacher Feature Winner: Kimberly Cox

SUMMERS COUNTY, W.Va. (WVVA) - School counselor Kimberly Cox has been helping students at Summers County Comprehensive High School for the last seven years. Before she was a counselor she was a fourth grade teacher at Hinton Area Elementary School. She says she made the switch to help students on a new level.

“I had a lot of students in fourth grade who were going through a lot of heavy issues and I wanted to be able to dedicate more time to helping them with that. As opposed to doing things like lesson planning and grading. I really wanted to focus on spending time with the students,” said Cox.

Cox has helped organize activities for students at the school that include a wellness event. Cox says the purpose of the act was to show students there are productive and safe ways to take care of themselves such as fishing, cooking and making pottery. She has also played a role in developing an adulting section in student’s advisory period.

“They’re learning things like how to check the oil in a car, how to jump start a car battery, how to tie a tie, how to calculate a tip without a calculator. They’re using basic tools just things like you and I use more than we really thought we would,’ said Cox.

Cox says she wants all students at the school to know that she wants them to be successful and she and other mentors at the school will help them in any way that they can.

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